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MOUNT WASHINGTON - With the stroke of a pen, the mayor of Mount Washington and the founder of a Louisville-based non-profit land trust brought an ambitious park project closer to fruition.

Ten years after Future Fund Endowment founder Dr. Stephen Henry began negotiating with Mount Washington officials to purchase nearly 32 acres of city property adjacent to the Floyds Fork Watershed, mayor Joetta Calhoun met with Henry at City Hall to transfer the deed on Thursday.